"Ambition" is a short film created by Platige Image in collaboration with European Space Agency to celebrate their pioneer Rosetta mission, which, successful, objective was to land on a comet for the first time in human history."
Find out more about the projekt and Mission
www.ambitionfilm.com
www.platige.com
www.youtube.com/AmbitionTheFilm
http://rosetta.esa.int/

Hello Guys!
At last we are happy to announce First Official Contest's Winners!
All of you put a lot of effort and creativity in your artworks, and all of us could see very good results!
For many of you it was a great practice and improvement of your 3D skills. We received a lot of thanks from you - big pleasure!
Without further ado let us announce the Winner...
And the Winner is... (tra-tah-tah-tah-tah) ... andeliseev with his great 'Turtle Submarine'. Congratulations!!!
Second Place: ostapblender with his wonderful 'Stesla' work. Congratulations!!!
And we decided to give three 3rd places to:
- Kargall and his 'Seven Wheels for Speed'
- Vladukenzo and his 'Steampunk TriTruck'
- pauloduarte with his 'Tank Fortress'
Congratulations to everyone, Guys!!!
Of course, it was a hard task for us to choose between such wonderful works of Art.
Also we want to mark Sculpting and Texturing works that we liked:
- 'Six Wheel Cabriolet' by kornblume (sculpting). Prize: 3D-Coat PRO license!
- 'Taxi' by zmei_f (texturing). Prize: 3D-Coat PRO license!
All the Winners, please contact Stas (sales@3dcoat.com) for 'Prize-receiving' information.
Thanks again to everybody who took part in the Contest! We hope to see more of you on our Second Official Contest which will start soon!

"Ambition" is a short film created by Platige Image in collaboration with European Space Agency to celebrate their pioneer Rosetta mission, which, successful, objective was to land on a comet for the first time in human history."
Find out more about the projekt and Mission
www.ambitionfilm.com
www.platige.com
www.youtube.com/AmbitionTheFilm
http://rosetta.esa.int/

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Pilgway Studio is Happy to Announce the First Official 3D Modelling Contest!
Please, find the terms and contest rules below.
We encourage you to discuss your thoughts and contest-related matters in this thread.
THEME: Steampunk Vehicle
TERMS (extended): May 10 - August 10, 23:59 (GMT+0)
PRIZE POOL:
1st place:
$1000
3D-Coat Professional
12 Months of Sketchfab PRO
Sketchfab T-shirt
2nd place:
$500
3D-Coat Professional
6 Months of Sketchfab PRO
Sketchfab T-shirt
3rd place:
3D-Coat Professional
3 Months of Sketchfab PRO
RULES:
1. Starting your own topic in this subforum.
2. Post your final image as well as screenshots of the work-in-progress assets with your comments in the topic created.
3. The model should be sculpted and textured in 3D-Coat.
4. Poly-modeled in other 3D modeling software is allowed.
The model should not be publicized earlier! The exceptions are: secondary objects used for the final scene.
5. You may use any number of pre-modeled parts for "kit-bashing".
6. Rendering and post effects may be done in 3D-Coat or other applications of your choice.
7. You may use any additional software for things that can't be done in 3D-Coat, i.e. fog, clouds, cloth simulation, grass/trees arrays, hair, etc.
Final IMAGE Requirements:
1. Model should be rendered with a background (interior, exterior or a studio environment).
2. Image longest size should not be less than 1920px.
IMPORTANT: If you need extended TRIAL, please, write me or Carlosan a request in Personal Message!
Feel free to share the message about the challenge in social networks! You may also submit your final creations on Sketchfab with a specific tag "3dcoatchallenge2016".
On behalf of the Pilgway team, wishing you good luck in the contest and may creativity abide with you!

Hey motrJR,
Thanks a lot for participating! Even though you didn't "finish" I encourage you to finish it for yourself and for the community to the stage/level you desire. As you mentioned - experience is a precious thing

Dear 3D-Coat Fellows!
We are thankful to everyone who participated in the First Official Contest. All of you did a good job!
Now the Contest is closed, and we need to take some time to chose a Winner!
Take a good rest

Cool! I like it much!
One question: is it intended to look like a toy?
If itis not, then you need to reduce DoF a lot
Plus it looks like are using fish-eye-like camera lens, If so the perspective should look extreme, but it's not ))
Also one problem the I saw on the previous render is that the vehicle blends with the background, so it's hard to see its contours and details...
Hope that helps improving the final composition!

Couple more things:
1. Lowering the camera angle to the level of the Guy's eye level will make everything visually "bigger"!
2. Rails lead to 'nowhere'.
3. Open space instead of a dark green tree behind the opened gate would also add some cool space to the final composiotion
4*. Something on the front plane could also help, but only if used wisely
PS. DOF on such shots must be used very carefully as you may make everything look like toys on a table
Hope that helps ))